Crossword clues for shoplifting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shoplifting \Shop"lift`ing\, n. Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "stealing of goods from a shop;" see shoplifter.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The action of stealing goods from a shop; the action of the verb (term shoplift English). 2 (context countable English) A theft from a shop during trading hours. vb. (present participle of shoplift English)
WordNet
n. the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store; "shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting" [syn: shrinkage]
Wikipedia
Shoplifting (also known in slang as boosting and five-finger discount) is a popular term used for the unnoticed theft of goods from an open retail establishment. Shoplifting typically involves a person concealing a store item on their person, in pockets or under clothes (or in a bag, baby stroller, etc.) and leaving the store without paying for it. With clothing, shoplifters may put on items from the store and leave the store wearing the clothes. The terms "shoplifting" and "shoplifter" are not usually defined in law. The crime of shoplifting generally falls under the legal classification of larceny. Shoplifting is distinct from burglary (theft by breaking into a closed store), robbery (stealing by threatening or engaging in violent behavior) or armed robbery (stealing by using a weapon). The word shrinkage, a retail industry term, is not a synonym for shoplifting, as it includes merchandise loss by means other than shoplifting, such as theft by store employees.
Shoplifters range from amateurs acting on impulse to career criminals who habitually engage in shoplifting as a form of income. Career criminals may use several individuals to shoplift, with some participants distracting store employees while another participant steals items. Amateurs typically steal products for personal use, while career criminals generally steal items to resell them in the underground economy. Other forms of shoplifting include swapping price labels of different items, return fraud or eating a grocery store's food without paying for it. Commonly shoplifted items are those with a high price in proportion to their size, such as disposable razor blades, vitamins, alcoholic beverages and cigarettes. Retailers have reported that 0.6% of their inventory is lost to shoplifting.
Stores use a number of strategies to reduce shoplifting, including storing small, expensive items in locked glass cases; chaining or otherwise attaching items to shelves or clothes racks (particularly expensive items); attaching magnetic or radio sensors or dyepacks to items; installing curved mirrors mounted above shelves or video cameras and video monitors, hiring plainclothes " store detectives" and security guards, and banning the bringing in of backpacks or other bags. Some stores have security guards at the exit, who search backpacks and bags and check receipts. Stores also combat shoplifting by training employees how to detect potential shoplifters.
Shoplifting was an American punk band, formed in 2002 in Seattle, Washington.
Shoplifting was composed of members Hannah Blilie (drums/vocals), Chris Pugmire (vocals/guitar), Devin Welch (guitar), and Melissa Lock (bass), who replaced Michelle Nolan (bass).
Shoplifting is the debut studio album by the Bristol-based indie rock group Straw.
Usage examples of "shoplifting".
Either you understand that you are pleading guilty to shoplifting or you are not.
Stuart and told him that Meredith had been busted for shoplifting in a drugstore.
Have your security manager draw up a list of everyone who was detained for shoplifting, and have your credit manager give us a list of everyone denied credit in the last six months.
I wonder if the reports of theft and shoplifting shot up the day after the girls learned an accountant would be looking at their ledgers?
Gap, attesting to his apprehension of Trey in the act of shoplifting last June.
Billy, who knew all about shoplifting and jimmying locks and using Sterno to heat up cans of chili.
Juvie twice for shoplifting and is currently reported missing from a foster home in Orange County.
Chase and Jenny Anderson had records before their spectacular bank-robbing spree: shoplifting, poaching, unlicensed firearms, bootlegging, forged checks.
I can put up with the singing toilet and the shoplifting and the couches and I can put up with him being so weird about money.
The whole shoplifting thing, how my dad steals things, it figures that he went and stole my life.
In December to that point it tallied two muggings, a stolen vehicle, four vehicle break-ins, a handful of stolen purses, some suspected pickpocket activity, a variety of disturbances by the obnoxious or irate, two episodes of vandalism, a hit-and-run in the parking lot, vagrancy, panhandling, et cetera, et cetera, and a two-part list six pages long of suspected or confirmed shoplifting and stolen or missing merchandise.
Nothing here says so, precisely, but what makes the shoplifting possible on this scale must have something to do with the Christmas shopping season.
In fact, before you came in here talking about shoplifting, I was certain that the attack on Judy had to be related to the car theft and hit-and-run.
I told him about the missing pistol and the shoplifting epidemic, the connection Ginny had spotted between the car theft and the hit-and-run.
I suppose, where some security people were doing the shoplifting and Mrs.